Garment-hanger.



PATENTED APR. 21, 1903.

E. G. GULLUM.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED 1050.22, 1902.

7 N0 MODEL.

z m n a U n r m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLA (J. OULLUM, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

GARM ENT-HANG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

725,678, dated April 21, 1903.

Application filed December 22, 1902. $erial No. 136,273. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELLA C. OULLUM, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of 1742 Sherman avenue, Denver, Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat or Garment Hangers, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hat or garment hangers; and it is especially adapted for use in theaters and similarplaces.

My invention is designed to be placed on the back of a seat, so that the person occupying the seat immediately behind may use the hook to hang his hat or other garment on, and the hook is so constructed that a person passing to and fro between the seats will not be caught by the hook, it being so constructed that it.will swing in either direction with but slight resistance.

Referring to the drawings, wherein like numerals are used to designate thesame parts wherever they occur, Figure 1 is apersective View of the back of a'theater-seat provided with my hanger, the hanger being shown in its outer position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hanger, showing the hook swung to one side. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the hanger, showing the same in its outer position. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, ex- ,cept that the hook is shown. swung against the back of the seat; and Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the two parts of the hanger detached from each other.

1 designates the body portion of my hanger, which is provided with suitable screw-holes 2, through which screws 3 or other suitable fastening means may be passed to secure the hanger to the back of a seat 4.- The body portion is struck up to form a pair of semicylindrical pintle-holders 5, and located between these pintle-holders and formed integral with the body portion is a spring 6'. This spring is provided centrally with a depression 7, the depression 7 being in line with the semicylindrical pintle-holders 5. It will thus be seen that the pintle-holders, the body portion, and the spring are all made from a single piece of metal and that the body portion can be constructed at a single stroke from a suitably-formed die.

8 designates a hook which is provided with 'a suitable head 9 and is bent in the form best shown in Fig. 5, the free end being in the form of an upwardly-turned U-shaped loop, with the head 9 at one end and'at the other end being bent downwardly at 10 to form the pivotal portion of the hook, which is under and held by the pintle-holders 5. At the free end the hook portion ll is formed to prevent the hook from being drawn out from the pintle-holders.

12 is a V-shaped bend formed intermediate the portions 10 and 11, and it is made at the point where when the hook is pivoted in the body portion the portion 12 will be over the spring 6, so that when the hook is turned to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the projection 12 will stand in the depression 7 in the spring 6.

By the construction just described it-will be seen that I have invented a hook which is exceedingly cheap to manufacture, which may be readily applied, and which will swing in either direction, so that it will not form an obstruction to people passing along between the rows of seats.

' While I have described what I believe to be the preferred form of my invention, I desire to have it understood that many changes may be made in the form and construction of the parts without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv v v 1. As a new article .of manufacture a hat or garment support, consisting of a body portion provided with a pair of semicylindrical pintle-holders spaced apart, a spring provided with a V- shaped depression, situated betweenthe pintle-holders, a hook pivoted in the body portion between the pintle-holders and the spring, the pivotal portion of the hook being bent out near its central portion to provide a projection adapted to coact with the depression in the spring whereby the hookintegral with the body portion and situated between the semieylindrieal pintle-holders, spring, whereby the hookmay be yieldingly the spring being provided with a V-shaped held in either its inner or outer position. 10

depression, a. hook pivoted in the body por- Signed by meat Denver, Oo1orado,this 13th tion between the semieylindrieal pintle-holdday of December, 1902.

ers and the spring, the pivotal portion of the ELLA G. CULLUM. hook being bent out near its central portion Witnesses: to provide a V-shaped projection adapted to ABBIE B. RHoADs,

want with the V-shaped depression in the v HELEN MATHEWSON. 

